[thelist] Best Practices for building a zip/postal code

[Madhu Menon]

At 12:27 PM 9/27/2001, .jeff wrote:
>not handed out in any sort of logical manner.  you won't have 97116 next to
>97115 or 97117.  neither will 97116 be as close to 97100 or 97199 as you
>might hope.  here's an example using the zips noted.  all miles are
>point-to-point and do not reflect the actual driving mileage between points.

Hey, thanks Jeff.

Now, when some clueless site insists that I enter a "ZIP code" only in the 
US format, I have a whole lot of numbers I can use instead of "90210" :P

Regards,

Madhu


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